[Sussex] cdrom access to all users

[Brendan Whelan]

Rupert,

Rupert,

Thanks for the email - "chmod 666 /dev/hda" allowed access to all users.

Brendan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rupert Swarbrick" <rupert.swarbrick at lineone.net>
To: <fyremoon at fyremoon.net>; "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties"
<sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] cdrom access to all users


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> John Crowhurst wrote:
> > On Mon, May 9, 2005 17:10, Brendan Whelan said:
> >
> >>Ronan,
> >>
> >>Thanks for the response - using   "grep cdrom /etc/group" didn't return
> >>anything.
> >>
> >>I changed "user" to "users" in fstab and when a non-root user enters
> >>"eject
> >>/media/cdrom" they get
> >>"Unable to open '/dev/hda' "          Root can eject the CD.
> >>
> >>Any suggestions?
> >
> >
> > Has anyone suggested changing the permissions on the device /dev/hda,
> > perhaps to chmod 666 /dev/hda?
> >
> > Add to the fstab:
> >
> > /dev/hda  /media/cdrom  iso9660  noauto,user,exec,ro 0 0
> >
> > So that all users can mount and umount the cdrom drive.
> >
> > --
> > John
>
> I'm afraid I only use Ubuntu, so can't always speak about FC3, but you
> might want to make sure that you want mount/umount not pmount/pumount,
> which is designed to make device access available to users (e.g. when
> you stick in a random usb memory stick etc.)
>
> More importantly, /dev/hda is almost certainly your main hard drive,
> providing that you aren't on a scsi system. Does the cdrom actually work
> at all? Or should it say /dev/hdc or something?
>
> Good luck,
>
> Rupert
>
> (Who's in a good mood, as he's just got software suspend 2 working on
> his laptop - 20sec boot times! And his laptop now has a 3 day uptime :)
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